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Steadfast And True. By Louisa C. Silke. (r.t.s.)—this Is "a

tale of the Huguenots," and is a good specimen of its kind. The picture of the perils and anxieties of the Protestant confessors in France is made to contrast in a very......

The Church Treasury Of History, Customs, 4•c. Edited By...

Andrews. (W. Andrews and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Andrews has collected here some seventeen papers, two being contributed by himself,— viz., "Fortified Church Towers" and "The......

The Wooing Of May. By Alan St. Aubyn. (f. V.

White and Co.)—May Lindsay is as unconscionable a little flirt as ever has been seen in fiction. Nothing but nearly breaking her back was able to cure her of the habit. Her "......

The Captain Of The Parish. By John Quine. (w. Heinemann.)

—This is one of the stories which make us regret the disappear- ance of the three-volume form. One of its merits lies in the abundance of detail faithfully given, natural......

Broken Threads. By Compton Reade. (hurst And Blackett.)...

has the privilege of being loved by two girls, both of them good, and one of them exceedingly clever and capable. He himself is a poor creature with some good instincts in him ;......

The History Of The Universities' Mission To Central...

A. E. M. Anderson-Morshead. (Office of Mission, Dartmouth Street.)—The history begins with 1859, when Charles Frederick Mackenzie, then Archdeacon of Natal, was asked to take......